…NHS by cost-cutting CCGs in Merseyside and Warrington, and launch its own private NHS patient service. There are fears that this is the increasingly commercial face of the NHS that…
…and a bed. Only 60.4% of Type 1 patients were seen within 4 hours, compared with the overall figure of 74.4%, (which is skewed by large numbers of minor Type…
…fully funded by us claim that in fact they are commercial bodies competing in a market and forced to protect their position by keeping everything secret, invoking “commercial confidentiality”. They…
…a generation.” This comes together with plans around how to manage the NHS as it recovers from years of neglect. How then will this commitment to insourcing play out for…
…and pitiful interviewers who might ask searching questions about this dreadful systems failure but don’t, the reports covering these statistics leave many readers, viewers and listeners with more questions than…
…NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), overseen by the independent Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC). The strategy also suggests that pharmacists joining up with PCNs will now “automatically be trained…
In her first speech to the Commons as Chancellor, Rachel Reeves committed to “reining in” consultancy spending in government departments. Both Labour and Tory campaigns in the general election promised…
…sector to get around the letter of the law – by expanding the provision of diagnostics and various elective procedures outside hospitals, in free-standing “clinics” and other facilities. The latest…
…Brexit appears to come in at a wholly unfortunate time as while the NHS attempts to compete for talent overseas, by the end of 2020 Freedom of Movement will be…